Awes.

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I couldn't believe the amount of stupid that Mitt Romney spewed this week but a part of me just wanted him to keep talking. I'm looking ahead to 2012 and would like those in MI who still think he's great finally see he is a giant douche.

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[www.joebidensteeth.com]

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Gah! I'll never think the same way about him and food. But it's good to know that he, like all of us, has his quirks.

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When one woman's husband saw the news about the mass layoffs he called her up at work and started screaming at her for being stupid enough to work with the company. She told the story while sobbing in the bathroom.

Tears, gallows humor, sleepless nights recounted. Everyone's dealing with it differently, or not dealing with it. But everywhere there is a sense of hopelessness and despair unlike anything I've ever seen in an industry that's had is share of ups and downs.

It seems like everywhere I read there are news articles demonizing the industry and everyone in it. We all deserve this if you want to listen to some of the Republican talking heads. Everyone from the admin answering phones to the engineer who worked their way through grad school to the person on the line. We all deserve to lose our jobs, lose our homes, and any hope of continuing a life here.

And why? Because we work for an industry that's the biggest game in the area, the same area that many of us were born. The same industry that many of our parents and grandparents and in my case great grandparents and great great grandparents worked in.

Yes, the auto industry is badly managed. Very badly managed. But the industry is not only its management and its worst examples. There are a lot of good people here that work hard and don't deserve the fate that's about to befall them.

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It's from a fucking lack of wanting real innovation and paying attention to what's going on that got the automakers (and many other industries like, say media) into this quagmire, but there are a LOT of people who are going to suffer for it. And that really, really pisses me off. The people who had the INFLUENCE to bring about change in their industry laughed it off and instead focused on fucking in-car HUMIDORS.

I think if consumers realized how many great ideas get shot down in development, even after having research that shows that it's a viable direction to go in, they would and should be pissed at those companies. It's total bullshit--we don't want new ideas, but we really don't want our competitors to have them either--and it hampers bringing about the fucking products (especially CARS) that people want to buy.

W.T.F.

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I just don't get the Hillary hate. First of all, we shouldn't assign Bill's failure to her unless we're also prepared to assign his successes to her. Second, I think it's difficult for anyone who has been in the public eye as long as these two have and have a good public image. We'll see how Obama is reported on in the news in 20 years. (for the record, I like Obama.)

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